The industrial revolution / by Arnold Toynbee ; with a preface by Arnold J. Toynbee.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Beacon Press, 1956Description: 139 pages ; 21 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.942
LOC classification:
  • HC 254.5 .T73 1956
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Contents:
1. Introductory -- 2. England in 1760: population -- 3. England in 1760: agriculture -- 4. England in 1760: manufactures and trade -- 5. England in 1760: the decay of the yeomanry -- 6. England in 1760: the condition of the wage-earners -- 7. The mercantile system and Adam Smith -- 8. The chief features of the revolution -- 9. The growth of pauperism -- 10. Malthus and the law of population -- 11. The wage-fund theory -- 12. Ricardo and the growth of rent -- 13. Two theories of economic progress -- 14. The future of the working classes.
Summary: "The first historian to create the modern consciousness of 'the industrial revolution' and to give it a name was Arnold Toynbee, uncle of the world-famous author of A Study of History, Arnold J. Toynbee. The uncle died just as he was reaching the flower of his maturity - at the age of 30; but his pioneering work in his field became a classic. 'Toynbee was the first economic historian to think of, and to set out to describe, the Industrial Revolution as a single great historical event, in which all the details come together to make an intelligible and significant picture. In doing this, he created the frame in which all subsequent work on the Industrial Revolution has carried out'." -- From the back cover/preface.
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks The Roscoe Proctor Collection HC 254.5 .T73 1956 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML19090035

First published in 1884 under title: Lectures on the industrial revolution in England.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-139).

1. Introductory -- 2. England in 1760: population -- 3. England in 1760: agriculture -- 4. England in 1760: manufactures and trade -- 5. England in 1760: the decay of the yeomanry -- 6. England in 1760: the condition of the wage-earners -- 7. The mercantile system and Adam Smith -- 8. The chief features of the revolution -- 9. The growth of pauperism -- 10. Malthus and the law of population -- 11. The wage-fund theory -- 12. Ricardo and the growth of rent -- 13. Two theories of economic progress -- 14. The future of the working classes.

"The first historian to create the modern consciousness of 'the industrial revolution' and to give it a name was Arnold Toynbee, uncle of the world-famous author of A Study of History, Arnold J. Toynbee. The uncle died just as he was reaching the flower of his maturity - at the age of 30; but his pioneering work in his field became a classic. 'Toynbee was the first economic historian to think of, and to set out to describe, the Industrial Revolution as a single great historical event, in which all the details come together to make an intelligible and significant picture. In doing this, he created the frame in which all subsequent work on the Industrial Revolution has carried out'." -- From the back cover/preface.

From the library of: Roscoe and Oleta Proctor.

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